"Deviation from either truth or duty is a…" — Tryon Edwards
"Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path."
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81 Quotes by Tryon Edwards
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Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius…
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Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our…
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
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Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where…
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave…
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Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow…
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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
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More Deviation Quotes
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
— Aristotle
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Tact is the discrimination of differences. It consists in conscious deviations.
— Theodor Adorno
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Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts…
— Thomas Brooks
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Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is…
— Sun Tzu
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There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune…
— Sun Tzu
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Everyone has the ability to accomplish unique feats, everyone. You choose this. Become someone great in one other life. Forget…
— Tom Platz
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Gardens... should be like lovely, well-shaped girls: all curves, secret corners, unexpected deviations, seductive surprises and then still more curves.
— H E Bates
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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst…
— Isaac Asimov
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
— Charles Lyell
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Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Man is the being, among whom only a small minority of the elite ones, find the Greatness of Glorious God,…
— Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
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If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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